The Car Wash Palace

I’ve been detailing my vehicles myself since, well, since Iv’e had a car of my own. For the last few years I haven’t lived anywhere with a driveway or hose to do it all myself so I’ve been going to self-​serve places like this. They usually work great for the initial wash and vacuum then I finishing with waxing and other details at home. This is the first one I’ve tried since moving to W Seattle and it set the bar pretty low.
Ups:
–They have more options than I’ve typically seen when it comes to spraying down your vehicle. (Tire pre-​soak, engine pre-​soak, Wax, tri-​foam protector, etc)
–Plenty of vending machines (with towels, armor-​all, etc)
–Several Vacuum machines w/​mat holders
Downs:
–On the pricey side. $ 1 = 90 seconds in the washing stall.
–Tokens only. And no way to turn your tokens back into real money. (Went here to save money rather than spend 20 bucks at the pink elephant. Ended up having to spend 20 anyways.)
–None of soap options really seemed to work any different than the next. The pre-​soaks seriously didn’t make any difference.
MY MAIN BEEF/​FUNNY STORY: Mind you this isn’t my first rodeo with this style of car wash. Since I had 20 bucks to burn in tokens, I threw the rinse-​off wax on there. I power-​rinsed the hell out of it, then finished with a liberal dose of the spot-​free (I had 6 minutes of time and wasn’t about to use the adorable blow-​dryer option). Pulled over to one of the the vacuum machines behind the main stalls. I cleaned out the cab, organized, vacuumed i brushed the side and noticed it looked weird. The wax coat had left a cloudy residue which required a pretty decent polish job to even get off. It gets EVEN better. Apparently sometime during the vacuuming process, a filter popped or there was a crack in the hose and it had been dusting my truck all over the vacuum side. Onto this tacky wax residue. I felt like I was in a Chevy Chase movie. 20 bucks and 45 minutes later, my truck actually LOOKS WORSE THAN WHEN I PULLED IN. Now its kinda funny. Anger laughs.
Anyways, won’t be back. Didn’t see any kind of number to call. Chalk it to a life lesson Im sharing with you.

Like others have stated — it’s a pretty basic do it yourself car wash.
I only went to use the vacuums, since most of the time I just take it through the car wash at Costco or Brown Bear. Pricing was a little much — I think I spent $ 6 to vacuum the entire car + trunk — but the only other thing I was displeased with was the head attachment which was kind of big and bulky and couldn’t really get in the small spaces/​crevices but it got the job done.
Now that I know it exists, and being the only one in West Seattle, I’ll be back to use it every now and then.

Great place to wash your own car! Used it for 1^st time today & completely happy. We are from Tucson where they have this type place on every other corner, but wasn’t able to find this one until today. Will definitely go back again. Oh and sweeper had Great suction for carpet cleaning :)

It’s a do it yourself car wash. What do people really expect?
24hrs. Whatever your schedule is you can jump in here and give your a car a quick one two three if it needs it.
I know I don’t have the yard space to do it at home and I’m just happy to have options to clean up when beef be.
Thank you!

This place is horrible. An incredible rip off compared to places like Brown Bear. It’s cash only, time is short, vacuums have really bad suction ($ 2 for vacuum? Really?) it took 2 runs to fully vacuum my car ($ 4). Ill never use this place again. Do yourself a favor and go someplace else.

Your basic DIY car wash, and the only one in West Seattle for that matter. Especially great for vacuuming out the interior of my SUV, which gets pretty grubby from our lovely Seattle weather, my dog, my kid, etc. Seems fairly priced as well.

Not bad for a DIY carwash. What can you say. Do a little work and the car comes out clean inside and out. For a few extra coins you can spritz a little air freshener in there.

The self service car wash deals makes me feel like a spend a ton of money and it rushes me along because of the beeping timers. With that said, I continue to use them on occasion. The car wash palace has the standard few car wash stalls, vacuums and carpet cleaners. The car wash costs $ 1.75 for about 4 minutes while the vacuums are $ 1.50 for 4 minutes. There are change machines that can break $ 1, $ 5, $ 10 and $ 20. I don’t know how often they replace the foaming brushes, but the one I used could have been better. It felt like I was pushing suds around with a 2×4. Which seemed to prove true once I looked over my car when it was dry (and the spots I missed). In total I spent about $ 6.75.

I wound up here because of Full Circle Farm. Allow me to explain. We just started getting produce from Full Circle farm and the first two boxes had beets in them. I see beats and I think Borscht. I made a delicious batch and kept some for leftovers. I put the leftovers in a big tupperware bowl with what turned out to not be a very tight lid. I put it in the front seat and then realized that there was a lot of dew on my windows so I grabbed a towel from the front seat which turned out to be underneath the tupperware and in slow motion I saw the tupperware bowl fly up, flip over and pour almost the whole bowl all over my front seat. This is six in the morning mind you and my front seat is oozing with thick, red, very fragrant beat soup. Not some bland, colorless vegetable, beats, the stuff that ancient cultures have used to die clothing for years.
I managed to scrape up a a buck of it, and wipe it with the towel, but beats aren’t the most pleasant smelling vegetable even on a good day and by the second day they weren’t smelling any better. I used some upholstery cleaner but now my car smelled like an old russian kitchen and a janitors closet.
So on the way home I vaguely remembered this car wash. It was pretty much where I thought it was and it had a big fancy vacuum/​washer. After twenty minutes of hot foam and vaccuming my seat looked better than it had in years. The smell was still a little off so I pulled the car over to the scent mating whih had Pina Colada, Vanilla or Black Ice. Black Ice sounded like some kind of brand of methamphetamine so I opted for the Vanilla. Now my car smells like a bakery rather than my great grandmothers living room. I also went ahead and gave my poor sad old car a nice wash too.

The place is not actually closed, I just washed my car there.
It was OK but really nothing special. I will say that everything worked as it is supposed to from the vacuum to the multi-​function car wash brush.
Maybe I would have been more impressed if I had opted to make our car scented like pineapple… but I had already spent enough money by the time I was finished.